Please confirm all details before leaving home in case something’s changed! Shows to add? Please email me at temewring@gmail.com. Wishing you laughter every day! This list’s goal is to help make that happen with events for every day of the year. I add frequently, so check back. Infinite thanks always to the Chicago comedy community […]
Talking with Hope Rehak: a Chicago comedian whose star is on the rise
A friend of mine who is a law professor and comedy fan wrote me to say I need to know about Hope Rehak. I love getting interview suggestions, so I was enthusiastic. I realized how great his suggestion was when I saw Hope’s clips on YouTube and saw a young, rising comedian who looks like […]
Q&A with Director Cathryn Michon: how Muffin Top became a rare and powerful rom-com
My husband and I have a tradition of bringing in the New Year with an argument. Stay in or go out? In 2015 we broke the tradition. We were in complete agreement about staying in, inviting friends over and watching Second City alum Cathryn Michon’s Muffin Top. The film is a unique rom-com. Its theme, […]
Derek Sheen to record live album at Chicago’s Comedians You Should Know on June 24, 25
Because of Derek Sheen, I will never again think of an escalator as an escalator. Instead, I will take the “wizard stairs.” Thanks to this Seattle-based comedian, the next billion times I say something in some mortifying way I didn’t mean (and believe me, those billion times all are likely to occur by next Tuesday), […]
A Q&A with comedian David Heti, and it was more than OK
Why aren’t philosophers listed in the Yellow Pages? I need a philosopher to articulate the reasons for my existential dread. I could use a philosopher combined with a lawyer. Lawyers construct arguments as beautiful as geometric theorems to force us to address the wrongs that created the dread in the first place. What if I […]
Top ten secret things about tomorrow
[This post is in response to a ChicagoNow assignment: in one hour, “Write about your tomorrow. Not figuratively, literally write about anything that you hope, fear, believe, expect — anything — that you may experience tomorrow.”] 1. I have more energy in the late evenings than in the mornings, so sometimes I sleep in my […]
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